Point taken re Blue Morpho, but the fact remains that for thousands of girls (and boys), self-harm, particularly cutting, is an imitative, meme-like behaviour. They see friends doing it to relieve stress or express frustration, so they do it. That doesn't mean it's always that way, and I don't think that's how Shiu meant it.
"The important thing is to not place too much emormity on the behaviors, even as you set in place rules to control them." I couldn't agree more: emphasising self-injury as a horrific, monstrously evil deed just makes it worse. There is something about this in I Never Promised You A Rose Garden... the behaviour must be taken seriously, but not too seriously.
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Date: 2004-04-02 11:39 pm (UTC)"The important thing is to not place too much emormity on the behaviors, even as you set in place rules to control them." I couldn't agree more: emphasising self-injury as a horrific, monstrously evil deed just makes it worse. There is something about this in I Never Promised You A Rose Garden... the behaviour must be taken seriously, but not too seriously.